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A nod, and the nurse has stripped
the child and donned the hospital
slip. As she unfolds the white blan
get to wrap around it, the mother,
with a cry of despair, snatches her
baby and the two half-crazed beings
cling to each other in desperation,
sobbing wildly.
A policeman is summoned and the
child hurried away, with the shriek
ing mother and neighbors, who
swarm into the street, following in
the wake of the ambulance until! it
speeds away and disappears.
Two trips were made to the -home
of I. Zarra before the child was dis
covered, and then, only after a battle
royal, in which two policemen and
the doctor engaged the enraged and
frightened clan was the nurse able
to steal away the unfortunate victim.
The street was in an uproar as the
ambulance sped away amid wild im
precations. To the hospital attendants it is all
in the day's work that they may be
stabbed in the back at any moment
by a frantic parent Today, after a
fight, first with a frantic mother,
then the father, and finally, the
neighbors, an ambulance sped down
the street, tears streaming down the
faces of the nurses from the scenes
they had witnessed.
"It's Polio, it's Polio," yelled the
curious crowd of excitable children,
with the New York street gamin's
aptitude for picking up a new word.
"It's Polio," whispered their elders
with blanched faces.
"It's hell," said the young surgeon
on the ambulance, and he looked
sorrowfully upon the pitiful little
bundle that had been carried from
the tenement
ABSOLUTE QUARANTINE PUT ON
INFANT VICTIMS
An absolute quarantine of families
in which there are cases of infantile
paralysis will be enforced in Chi
cago. Health Comm'r Robertson
says this is the only way to success
fully combat the disease
Two new cases of baby paralysis
developed yesterday. Olga Przy
bylla, iy2, 1927 W. Chicago av., and
Bryant Savage, 3y2, 2138 N. Tripp
av., were taken to the County hos
pital. They had been ill for some
time, one of them for two weeks,
without the parents knowing what
was the matter.
PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC DOUBLES
IN GREATER NEW YORK
New York, July 11. Despite pro
digious efforts to curb the epidemic
of infantile paralysis gripping Great
er New York, reports to the health
department today showed an in
crease of 100 per cent in the num
ber of deaths and new cases in
Brooklyn since" yesterday.
The total number of deaths since
the epidemic started reached 270 to
day when latest reports to Health
Commissioner Emerson told of 32
additional fatalities. Twenty of
these were in Brooklyn.
The total number of cases report
ed is now 1,278. Of this,number 198
new cases Were reported today.
All states along the Atlantic sea
board as far south as Virginia have
written to the health authorities bere
asking for information as to the epi
demic. The' authorities of Yonkers
and New Rochelle today protested to
the local health board against the
number of children coming to these
towns from the greater city, fearing
the epidemic will spread there.
WANTS $100,000 TO WAGE FIGHT
ON INFANTIL PARALYSIS
Washington, July 11. Wm. G. Mc
Adoo, sec'y of the treasury, will rec
ommend to congress today or
Wednesday that $100,000 be appro
priated immediately to be turned
over to the public health service for
use in fighting infantile paralysis epi
demic, which officials fear will de
velop into worst plague U. S. has
ever experienced unless prompt ac
tion is taken.
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